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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:12:00 CST
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- From: Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Clouds over Portland
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- > > if a suitable site can be found. I doubt any site will compare with
- > > Providence and it may be fantasy to expect it to. Maybe we could all go
- > Yes, but as Jane Wyman said, "It will be a magnificent obsession." Maybe
- > this all-or-none mentality is killing it for us? A crazy idea, I know, but
- > call me right-brained.
-
- I agree that it will be almost impossible to live up to last year's standard.
- One thing that has occurred to me, though, is that we don't necessarily have
- to try to make it the same in the sense of a well-organized, catered event.
- That was gorgeous, of course, but if we can't do it (e.g., if we decide on
- a place without available or willing locals to do the necessary organizing),
- we could have an event more like the pre-clambake night in Boston. In other
- words, if we make definite plans for time and place and get our bodies (and
- spirits) to that place at that time, we can make our own event. We could
- easily take over a NC resort area, a hotel in Toronto, a whatever. And we
- could probably arrange pretty easily to reserve a room in a good restaurant
- for an "official" event.
- --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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